How ordinary elimination became Gaussian elimination

Historia Mathematica

Volumn 38, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 163-218

  Grcar, Joseph F ^a  

^a NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

Algebra before 1800; Gaussian elimination; Human computers; Least squares method; Mathematics education

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EID: 79952280071     PISSN: 03150860     EISSN: 1090249X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.hm.2010.06.003     Document Type: Article

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